low tide

英 [ˌləʊ ˈtaɪd]

美 [ˌloʊ ˈtaɪd]

n.  (大海的)低潮时期，低潮

牛津词典

noun

• （大海的）低潮时期，低潮
  the time when the sea is at its lowest level; the sea at this time
  1. The island can only be reached at low tide .
     这座岛只能在退潮时上去。

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 低潮（时间）；干潮（时间）；枯潮（期）
  At the coast,low tideis the time when the sea is at its lowest level because the tide is out.
  1. The causeway to the island is only accessible at low tide.
     通往该岛的堤道只有在枯潮时才能通行。

英英释义

noun

• the lowest (farthest) ebb of the tide
  Synonym:low water

双语例句

• At high tide the sea covers the rocks, but at low tide it uncovers them.
  海水在高潮位时淹过了礁石，可是在低潮位时却淹不过。
• What time is low tide?
  低浪是什么时候？
• The beach is covered in shells at low tide.
  低潮的时候沙滩上到处都是贝壳。
• Low tide waters reveal a sea of garbage.
  等到潮水落下的时候，一眼望去，沿海尽是垃圾。
• The level of the ocean's surface, especially the level halfway between mean high and low tide, used as a standard in reckoning land elevation or sea depths.
  海洋表面的水位，尤其是在平均高水位和低水位之间的平均位置的水位，用作计算陆地海拔和海水深度的标准。
• At low tide, what you will do?
  低潮时，你们都会做什么？
• For example in Brittany we were able to monitor a movement of two millimetres between high and low tide.
  比如说以前在布列塔尼地区，我们考察到在涨潮和落潮之间地壳会有两毫米的移动。
• Thus high tides will occur at the same time on opposite sides of the earth, rather than a high tide on one side and a low tide on the other.
  这样，在地球相对的两侧将同时出现高潮，而不是一侧出现高潮，另一侧出现低潮。
• They dug for shellfish at low tide
  退潮时他们在海滩上挖贝类。
• Be careful of the low tide, when the islands are connected!
  当这些小岛连着的时候，低潮的时候要小心。